aldaajeh, M. (2024). Features of Social Life through the Books of Muslim Travelers (the Example of Ibn Battuta). Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 74(118), 1-30. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.386252
Mohannad nayef aldaajeh. "Features of Social Life through the Books of Muslim Travelers (the Example of Ibn Battuta)". Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 74, 118, 2024, 1-30. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.386252
aldaajeh, M. (2024). 'Features of Social Life through the Books of Muslim Travelers (the Example of Ibn Battuta)', Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 74(118), pp. 1-30. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.386252
aldaajeh, M. Features of Social Life through the Books of Muslim Travelers (the Example of Ibn Battuta). Journal of the Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University, 2024; 74(118): 1-30. doi: 10.21608/bfalex.2024.386252
Features of Social Life through the Books of Muslim Travelers (the Example of Ibn Battuta)
Travel books represent great importance no less than their counterparts from various historical sources in all fields of knowledge and across different times. Travel books are also distinguished by their uniqueness in large aspects that we do not find in the rest of the sources. How could they not represent the living style of conveying the facts of direct events to eyewitnesses like our famous traveler Ibn Battuta, who ventured on a long journey that included Africa, Asia, and various coastal and land regions, during which he met tribes and peoples with diverse cultures and influenced and was influenced by them. What is important is that he conveyed to us their news and conditions in order to draw the features of pictures of social life. He came up with a recipe of the utmost precision and mastery, filling in the complete deficiency of what many had overlooked. Sources, and therefore this research included a number of important titles, such as talking about women in various places, their customs, their dress, their sales, their trade, celebration processions, marriage, dowries, and slave girls, and he compared that with his observations and his own experiences of marriage from those regions, to present material containing many bright aspects that highlight the importance and dignity of Muslim women. Its glory is compared to what was seen and observed by non-Muslims, and due to the importance of the topic, other travel books and historical and geographical sources were used to fill the shortcomings that may arise in some aspects of Ibn Battuta’s journey.